“This will be pronounced immoral by some readers. The analysis of women’s thoughts and emotions is illuminating; a book that women rather than men will read.”
+ − Booklist 17:75 N ’20
“Mary Wollaston and her Anthony March have discovered that ‘sentimentality is the most cruel thing in the world’; but it would be difficult to find another word for the atmosphere with which this story invests its realism of fact. That is why I for one find little health in it.” H. W. Boynton
− Bookm 52:344 Ja ’21 400w Cleveland p106 D ’20 60w
“This novel has both the faults and the merits of its subject-matter, which is a representative cross-section of American metropolitan life in the immediate wake of the great war. It has neither faults nor merits of its own. To apply to it the canons of literary criticism would be an empty futility, for it has nothing to do with literature. It is, in three words, a competent realistic novel.” Wilson Follett
+ − N Y Evening Post p3 N 27 ’20 1950w
“The most interesting thing about ‘Mary Wollaston’ and the chief reason for reading it is that it is so accurately contemporary. The young generation seem to be frightening their elders in these days, and perhaps this novel will explain the fear without allaying it.” W: L. Phelps
+ N Y Times p8 O 31 ’20 640w + Outlook 126:470 N 10 ’20 70w
“It is most cleverly compact and as neat as a good play in its action. But the climax lacks something of convincing the reader. ‘Mary Wollaston’ is well worth reading. And if read, it demands to be thought about. If you like stimulating novels, you cannot find a more satisfying one than Mr Webster’s latest.” E. P. Wyckoff